ISTANBUL (AA) – Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has expressed Baku’s appreciation for the EU’s mediation in peace negotiations between his country and neighboring Armenia. A statement by the Azerbaijani presidency said that Aliyev held talks with visiting EU Council President Charles Michel in the country’s capital, during which...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened military action against Israel. He is suggesting a possible intervention in Palestine similar to Turkiye’s past involvement in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh. Erdogan’s remarks reference Turkiye’s previous military engagements, including its 2020 intervention in Libya and its support for Azerb...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Azerbaijan has announced that the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Karabakh has completed its withdrawal from the region. The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said in a statement that the contingent’s personnel, weapons and equipment have all left the country. In April, Russia announced that it had begun the process o...
The Hague, Netherlands – AFP Azerbaijan and Armenia again crossed swords before the UN’s top court on Monday, with Baku accusing Yerevan of using the high profile hearings to wage a “public media campaign” against its bitter Caucasus rival. The latest legal clash over “ethnic cleansing” comes as military ten...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Baku has said that Yerevan must eliminate points included in the country’s official documents, containing claims against Azerbaijan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Aykhan Hajizada in a statement said comments made by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at a meeting with ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Baku early Tuesday said it carried out a “revenge operation” in response to a cross-border fire by Armenia a day earlier, which injured one Azerbaijani serviceman. “As a result of the operation, the combat post of the Armenian Armed Forces near the Nerkin-And settlement of Gafan district, where our soldi...
MOSCOW (AA) – Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev easily cruised to victory in this week’s early presidential election, winning 92.1% of the vote with all the ballots counted, the country’s Central Election Commission officially announced on Friday. The Wednesday vote was historic, as it marked the first time it was held on the enti...
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AA) – Azerbaijan has urged the international community to exert pressure on Armenia to provide accurate mine maps. “Armenia violated international law and committed a war crime by planting mines on Azerbaijani territories,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Aykhan Hajizada said. Hajizada noted that Armenia provided...
MOSCOW (AA) – Azerbaijan on Tuesday accused the EU’s top diplomat of “instigating militarization and an aggressive policy towards Azerbaijan.” In a statement on the ministry’s website, Foreign Ministry spokesman Aykhan Hajizada rejected remarks by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell – also known as the high repr...
Baku, Azerbaijan- AFP Azerbaijan has detained an ex-president of its recently captured separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which agreed to reintegrate with Azerbaijan in the wake of Baku’s lightning offensive last month. Earlier on Wednesday, Armenia’s foreign ministry “strongly condemned” Azerbaijan for arresting se...
